My grandfather, the late Fred Robertson, influenced how I think about and write history. He died years before I decided to become a historian and he was not an academic, but he was a historian and an intellectual in his own way. He was a master storyteller. Read more…
The first list of ragged schools in London in the records of the Ragged Schools Union is that put before a meeting on July 5th, 1844:
This article is a digest of work on ‘high control groups’ and Joost Meerloo’s book published post second world war on Menticide and the psychology of thought control. In order to position myself as to the research, my own interests have been developing through a study of what I call “sublegal violence” after studying the psychology and sociology of dehumanisation.
The following is a piece of work focusing on ‘Practice as Research’ which I wrote whilst on a Masters course at Queen Margaret University. All the work I have done whilst on the course has been work which has been published in more extended, annotated forms on the Ragged University website.
For the most part, history has been concerned with great economic, social, and political movements and the men who were involved in them. Only rarely has it portrayed the plight of ragged, hungry, even homeless and abandoned children. Indeed, until recently, and to some degree today, the welfare of children has been on the fringes of public policy. Read more…
